A shell script is a script written for the shell, or command line interpreter. Typical operations performed by shell scripts include file manipulation, program execution, and printing text.

The shell scripting interpreter installed by default on Debian is the GNU bash..

Hello world example

This is the "Hello world !" source code basic example.

#!/bin/sh
echo Hello world !

Save it with in hello.sh then run it typing:

debarm:~# chmod +x hello.sh
debarm:~# ./hello.sh

Installation

Installed by default.